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In February, MySpace, the world’s largest online social network, will launch its program to court outside software developers in a bid to widen the gap against competitor Facebook. As part of the Feb. 5 launch, it has also promoted MySpace business development executive Amit Kapur to a new role as chief operating officer, the company […]

The United States topped a new ranking that measures how well countries use telecommunications technologies — networks, mobile phones and computers — to boost their social and economic prosperity. Sweden and Japan were also ranked high in the study. Connectivity Scorecard, created by London Business School professor Leonard Waverman, and published on Wednesday, measured countries […]

European Union countries can refuse to disclose names of file sharers on the Internet in civil cases, the EU’s top court said on Tuesday in a blow to copyright holders trying to fight digital piracy. The European Court of Justice ruled on a dispute between Spanish music rights holders association Promusicae and Spain’s top telecom […]

A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday. Among the missing documents were an 1823 letter by Vice President John C. Calhoun and copies of the Davy Crockett Almanacs, pamphlets […]

More than a quarter of people who bought Apple’s iPhone are using them on wireless networks other than AT&T’s, the exclusive iPhone carrier in the U.S., a “stunning” number that will pressure the company’s business model, an analyst said on Monday. Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi said sales numbers from Apple and AT&T revealed about […]

Research In Motion has jumped into the retail market offering products with more lifestyle features, while exposing itself to shoppers’ fickle tastes and competition from Apple’s iPhone. Products such as its pink BlackBerry Pearl, a candy bar–shaped mobile phone and e-mail device, will now offer television, music, cameras and Facebook social-networking software for broad appeal. […]

CANNES, France — Away from the headlines of job losses, grumbling artists and falling global sales, the music industry is discussing new business models to boost digital sales and offset the fall in CD sales. At the annual industry meeting on the French coast this week, much of the talk was dominated by a new, […]

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems on Monday launched a new switching product aimed at large datacenters and forecast strong sales despite worries of a slowdown in U.S. technology spending. Cisco said the Nexus 7000, which combines Ethernet switching and storage capabilities into a single product, is aimed at helping large corporate datacenters handle and store […]

WASHINGTON – The bidding topped $3.7 billion on the second day of the Federal Communications Commission’s auction of government-owned airwaves, but there were no new suitors Friday for a closely watched block of spectrum to be shared with public safety agencies. The $3.7 billion, up from $2.78 billion on Thursday, represented the highest bids received […]

The arrival of a truly mobile Web, offering a new generation of location-based advertising, is set to unleash a “huge revolution,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said on Friday. “It’s the re-creation of the Internet, it’s the re-creation of the PC [personal computer] story and it is before us — and it is very likely it […]

Market researcher IDC expects growth in the global market for mobile phones to slow to single digits from this year onward after unit sales rose 11.6 percent last quarter, it reported in a statement on Friday. Despite slowing growth, more than 300 million handsets were sold in the fourth quarter — which includes the holiday […]

A record number of readers visited U.S. online newspaper sites last year, according to figures released on Thursday, confirming the Web as one of the few bright spots for the struggling newspaper industry. The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) reported the number of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites last year rose more than 6 […]